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Mohammed Ibrahim Hassan, LLB, LLM, BL, Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria

Born to the royal family of Pindiga Emirate in the present day Gombe State of Nigeria on the 17th April, 1947. His father Mallam Ibrahim Hassan Buraima was the Sarkin Pindiga district between 1952 and 1970. Hassan began his primary school in kumo town and later proceeded to the Senior high school in Gombe town, he completed his secondary school at the Bauchi Teachers college, now Hassan Usman unity school, Bauchi. Hassan studies law at the famous Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria before taking up a job as a lecturer at the faculty of law in the same university. Hassan was later appointed as a Senior state council iin the defunct North Eastern state of Nigeria. After Bauchi state was created, he was appointed as the Managing Director of the Bauchi state tourism and hospitality board. Hassan ventured in to politics in 1978 and joined the defunct National party of Nigeria (NPN) where he contested for the Governorship of Bauchi state but later stood down his ambition to support his political ally Alh. Abubakar Tatari Ali who later won the election in 1979. Hassan was appointed Commissioner of finance of Bauchi State in August, 1979. In October 1979, the then president of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Shagari nominated Hassan for a ministerial position and after passing the screening by the Nigerian Senate, he was appointed the Federal Minster of Mines and power, a position he held until the 1983 elections. Hassan also made another attempt for the Governorship of the state but lost the primaries to the incumbent. In October, President Shagari appointed him for the second time to the executive council where he was made the Hon. Minister of External Affairs. However, the second Republic was disrupted by a military coup on the 31st December, 1983. Hassan had participated in several national and international fora and was turbaned as the 1st Baraden Gombe as well as Wazirin Pindiga. He was at different times appointed by various governments to head agencies and establishments which includes, Chairman, Ajaokuta Steel, National Iron ore mining company, Itakpe, Jos steel rolling mills, National Judicial Council, etc. Hassan later joined the People's Democratic Party and was made the chairman of the parties convention in 1998 in Jos. It was the convention that adopted Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo as the flag bearer of the party. He later dumped the party for his claims of unfair treatment and lack of internal democracy and joined the defunct Alliance for Democracy (AD). After several failed attempts for the Governorship of his newly created Gombe State, Hassan retired to his law firm in Lagos and continued to be relevant in the Nigerian politics untill his death in a weired circumstances on the 11th July, 2011. He is survived by 3 wives and 15 children.